Article
A twin and family study of the association between immune system dysfunction and dyslexia using blood serum immunoassay and survey data.
Brain and cognition - 1 Apr 1998
Gilger J W, Pennington B F, Harbeck R J, DeFries J C, Kotzin B, Green P, Smith S
Abstract excerpt
We conducted a study of the association between developmental reading disability (DRD) and immune disorders (ID) using both survey and immunoassay data in two separate samples of families. One sample was made up of twins and their parents and was ascertained through a population-based sampling sc...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Antibodies, Antinuclear
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Child
- Colorado
- Diseases in Twins
- Dyslexia
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- HLA Antigens
- Humans
- Hypersensitivity
- Male
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Rheumatoid Factor